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Vote SPAM For President: New Election Tactics or Same Old Tricks?

16

Oct

2012

Sucuri – The United States presidential campaign is going full force, and it’s been a doozy. We don’t typically get involved with political situations, short of cleaning some of the crazy defacements we see, this is an exception. This election campaign has brought its typical bashing via commercials, the usual rhetoric we see in interviews, […]

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Malicious URLs in Fake Craigslist Emails

07

Jun

2012

Today, Websense® Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has seen a barrage of malicious emails pretending to be automated notifications from Craigslist. These emails instruct the recipient to click a link to complete a Craigslist request. The URLs in these emails redirect the user to malicious web sites hosting Blackhole Exploit Kit. So far we have seen over 150,000 of these […]

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Worm Spreads via Facebook Private Messages, Instant Messengers

17

May

2012

We recently received reports about private messages found on Facebook and distributing a link, which is a shortened URL pointing to an archive file “May09-Picture18.JPG_www.facebook.com.zip”. This archive contains a malicious file named “May09-Picture18.JPG_www.facebook.com” and uses the extension “.COM”. Once executed, this malware (detected as WORM_STECKCT.EVL) terminates services and processes related to antivirus (AV) software, effectively […]

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